What exactly is the harm in someone believing in angels, psychic powers, or other “unexplainable” phenomenon?
By all means. 
What are you talking about? I have phsychic powers.
C’mon now, we all know I’m telepathetic.
See that beer you have in front of you, how the bubbles rise? I just did that.
Tripler
Behold my psychic powers.
No, we don’t.
While I have no problem with those who want to talk about angels and psychic powers, I do think they’re tabloid-kinda subjects and not indicative of great knowledge or incisive intelligence. Of course, I also think that of most religions that profess such things as well.
A thermos seldom bounces.
What?
Carry on.
The problem is evident in your question. You’re assuming that angels and psychic powers are, in fact, phenomena that require an explanation. Since there’s absolutely no reliable evidence that angels or psychic powers exist at all, there’s no need to look for an explanation. It’s like expecting someone to offer an explanation of why anvils fall from the sky every day at high noon. They don’t, so why look for a reason?
He’s still funny but not ha ha funny.
So GD should be an “I am athiest and you are not, you fairy-believer!” board?
From the Great Books of the Western World Series:
Volume 19: Treatise on the Angels
The GBWW Series is the basis for the curriculum of the second oldest college in the United States and certainly one of the most academically respected. The subject can’t be a total waste of time.
Meanwhile, I don’t think that psychic ability has been fully explored in the light of M Theory since that is a shiney bright new thing.
It is terribly ironic that people can dismiss psychic ability as being unworthy of debate, but still be open to the concept of eleven dimensions, infinite possibilities of parallel universes, tears in the cosmos and the illusion of time.
I choose to keep an open mind.
IMHO, the debates involving these subjects (angels, demons, Loch Ness monster and God) should concentrate not on “do these things exist?” but “WHY do people continue to believe in such tripe?” On THESE type of questions serious debate can be enjoyed.
People like lekatt and his ilk often sincerely believe in these fairy tales. Many of them aren’t playing games, and some of them are actually intelligent. What makes people hope against hope that there are Gods and Angels even when they should know better?
Why? Why?
*** Favorite Wiggums quote: ***
On one of the Halloween specials Ralph is splattered with blood-- he might have an axe through his head too–I don’t recall-- and he says:
“I look like cable TV!”
I betcha if you built a time machine, and went back to 17th century England and told people that in 400 years we’d be flying jet airplanes all over the big round world, they’d react exactly the same way.
Yeah, you don’t have an agenda, do you?